Pledge to help change lives through access to education
New school opens in Zihuatanejo Today in Zihuatanejo, Mexico, Marina Sanchez Hernandez, a tireless advocate for the education of needy and deserving people – including local indigenous children and adults – opened a new free / by voluntary contribution, school to continue her mission: bringing education to all and teaching literacy in local indigenous languages...
12th Annual Zihuatanejo International Guitar Festival Announces Kickstarter campaign and 2015 Line Up
12th Annual Zihuatanejo International Guitar Festival to be held, March 6 – 15, 2015, in beautiful Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo, on the Pacific coast of Mexico. A week of live music in paradise, the Zihuatanejo International Guitar Festival comes back in 2015 with more incredible music in a beautiful beach front setting. Over twelve years, this non-profit festival...
ICF seeks Disaster Relief to Rebuild Cabo
The International Community Foundation is raising funds to support immediate disaster relief and rebuilding efforts in Baja California Sur in response to damage caused by Hurricane Odile. Odile made landfall near Cabo San Lucas on Sunday night, September 14, 2014, as a powerful Category 3 hurricane, with estimated winds of 127 mph and torrential...
Ritmos de Brasil, Brazilian guitar teachers leave smiles and 100 new guitarists in Zihuatanejo
Photos by Margaret Reid and Olga Grishkova Ritmos de Brasil, workshop and concert series was held January 20-30 and was part of the 10 year anniversary of the Zihuatanejo International Guitar Festival. The event was sponsored in large part by the Brazilian government. Our special invited guest, Arnaldo Freire from Goiânia,...
An exciting start to a bold new Cultural Calendar for Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo
All Photos by Arte Visual / www.emartevisual.com 2013 marks the ten year anniversary of the Zihuatanejo International Guitar Festival, and in its continuing efforts to do more for Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo, the festival has recently embarked on an ambitious plan to provide year-round programming. Zi-Guitar Fest AC, the non-profit association behind the guitar festival, will be...
Guitar Fest 2012, March 5 – 11, 2012
9th Annual Zihuatanejo International Guitar Festival, March 5 – 11, 2012, in Beautiful Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo, on the Pacific coast of Mexico. The Zihuatanejo International Guitar Festival is very proud to announce that they will be the recipient of an Arts and Culture grant from the Mexican federal government, increasing our budget and insuring we can...
Calling all Westjet Travelers!
Book transporters needed!
Word share with the children of Zihuatanejo, from Sister City Collingwood, Canada The Collingwood-Zihuatanejo sister city committee has been in existence since 2004, bridging the communities of Collingwood, Canada, and Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo, Mexico, through cultural exchange and philanthropic projects. This year’s project will provide English language books and English language books on CD’s to Casa de...
Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo Peace Festival, November 14-17 2011
On November 14-17 2011, Ixtapa Zihuatanejo will host “Festival de La Paz” (peace in Spanish) to re-dedicate and celebrate its commitment to work towards peace and to recognize the many international groups and organizations that participated in peace-building activities with the community over the past year. The Peace Festival will be celebrated in November rather...
Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo Project Directory
The Angel Tree Program This is a worldwide program, a branch of which was started in Zihuatanejo seven years ago. The project organizes gifts for the children of people incarcerated in the local jail. Gifts are delivered on January 6th of each year (Kings’ Day). The inmates also create high quality hammocks which are sold...
